Heteropagus conjoined twins due to fusion of two embryos: Report and review

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-243

  Logroño, Roberto ^a,b,e   Garcia Lithgow, Carlos ^c   Harris, Charles ^b   Kent, Marijo ^d   Meisner, Lorraine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^c Clinica Corazones Unidos   (Dominican Republic)

^d PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autosite; Conjoined twins; Double monsters; Embryonic fusion; Fission; Heteropagus; Mechanisms of twinning; Parasitic twin; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONJOINED TWINS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; PELVIS; THORAX; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0030702954     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19971219)73:3<239::AID-AJMG1>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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